I recently installed Win95 on my machine and dusted off and installed the 
copy of HP Backup for Win 95 v1.01 that came with the Colorado Jumbo 350 tape 
drive I bought several years ago.  On attempting to back up the Win95 
partition using this software I find myself unable to do so without thousands 
of errors on the verify stage.  If I select individual files or directories 
it seems to verify OK, but if I try to verify the entire backup set in one 
fell swoop it fails.  In my opinion a backup you can't verify is no better 
than no backup at all.
HP/Colorado is useless; they no longer support this software and refer you to 
Cheyenne to purchase a new backup program.  I'm not ready to spring for this 
yet.  I'll ditch the Jumbo and buy a decent SCSI unit before I do that.  Is 
anyone here familiar with this software and how/if it can be persuaded to 
work properly? And if things got really trashed, how does one restore to a 
blank partition with this software?  It seems almost as if it's necessary to 
re-install Win95 before you could restore from the tape.  Can this be true?
Another option is that I could use my OS/2 backup software to backup the 
Win95 partition.  I realize that the VFAT long filenames would be lost, but 
is this more than just an inconvenience?  WIll the system be able to boot and 
run using the 8.3 names instead of the longname pointers?  At least well 
enough for me to get it up and running and then restore the long names 
manually?
It also occurs to me that I could put the Win95 stuff in a Drivespace 
compressed volume and simply backup/restore the compressed volume file from 
OS/2.  If I then boot from my Win95 recovery diskettes, I should be able to 
access the files on the compressed drive long names and all, right?
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